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With their backs turned to the opposite porthole, a fish-like hand reaches into the cabin. That’s a fish Monsterarm and it’s going to try to grab them. Thankfully Dr. David Reed fends it off with a wooden bat.

A black and white 3D movie from Universal-International 1954 The Creature From The Black Lagoon is a monster movie classic.

Creature design by Disney animator Millicent Patrick, Ben Chapman played the creature and Riccou Browning did underwater shots. The costume was so hot that the actors stayed in the studio lake to cool off.